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It includes the Arab countries, Israel and Turkey.

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The increasingly crowded regional mobile market has not only diversified
the availability and increased the sophistication of services offered , but has
also led to two major regional players looking afar for growth opportunities,
namely the African continent.newscom. The
sudden influx of wholesale international bandwidth should lead to a drop in
wholesale prices and result in cheaper prices for end-user services.com
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DUBLIN, Ireland, Research and Markets
(http://www. Topics detailed in the report include the following:

Regional mobile market developments and analysis
Spectrum Auctions, Developments, Govt.

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This annual report provides an insight into the telecoms market of the
Middle East .

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Policies
Regional expansion by local players
Infrastructure, GSM, CDMA, GSM, iDEN
Satellite Mobile, Push-to-Talk
Mobile Data Services, SMS, MMS, WAP, M-Commerce
Major mobile operators

Countries covered: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon ,
Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey United Arab Emirates and Yemen

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Iran has a huge unmet demand for mobiles, evident by the run out of new
blocks of SIM cards within days of issue and the exorbitant prices paid for
mobile SIM cards on the black market, but challenges lie ahead due to the
change in power to a conservative-dominated government.

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This annual report provides an insight into the disparate mobile markets
of the Middle East.

This region is the birthplace of both Christianity and Islam, and the cradle of many great ancient civilizations.

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Research and Markets: Saudi Arabia Makes Significant Progress in the Mobile Market With a Second GSM Licence Awarded With Plans to Award a Third Licence in Lat

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This level of development and liberalisation is reflected in the telecom
industry of countries in the region, ranging from Qatar's total monopoly of
the telecoms market until 2013, to Israel's total market liberalisation, to
conservative Iran's shaky attempts at market reform to cater for the massive
unmet demand for mobile services.

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com/reports/c18876) has announced the addition
of 2005 Middle Eastern - Mobile Communications and Mobile Data Markets to
their offering.

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researchandmarkets.com/reports/c18871) has announced the addition
of 2005 Middle Eastern - Telecoms Statistics and Market Overview to their
offering. The first
wave was sometimes either accompanied or followed by liberalisation of data
markets such as those in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

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However the rate of change, particularly in
market liberalisation, is gaining momentum, driven by a combination of
factors: World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other international body
requirements , the desire to improve the quality of services and the desire to
improve the standard of living through economic investment.
Bahrain and Jordan have recently created a regulatory environment
conducive to competition.

In modern times, the region is better known as the world's leading source of crude oil, and as a place of constant political conflict and turmoil.

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region is a jigsaw of countries at various stages of economic development and
market liberalisation.

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Topics detailed in the report include the following:

- National and international telecommunications infrastructure
- National and international telecommunications infrastructure
developments
- Regulatory issues and government policies re infrastructure
- Datacomms Infrastructure, Leased Lines, ISDN, Frame Relay, ATM, MPLS
- Brief overviews on all of the major telecommunications carriers and
service providers

Countries covered: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon,
Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey United Arab Emirates and Yemen
The telecoms industry in the Middle East region is slowly but surely
shedding its status as an underdeveloped, overprotected or closed market. The initial wave
of liberalisation was in the mobile market.

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The third and final wave,
liberalisation of fixed-line voice markets has already swept over Israel,
Bahrain and Jordan and will soon occur in Saudi Arabia. New operators
will enter the markets and, like in most countries that have just opened their
markets, go for the most profitable sectors such as international voice and
data.

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The term 'Middle East' refers to the region including Western Asia, Eastern Europe, the Gulf nations, and Northern Africa.

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Third generation (3G) mobile services have taken off in a number of countries
and could take place in two more in the very near future.

Research and Markets: Telecoms Industry in the Middle East Region is Slowly but Surely Shedding its Status as an Underdeveloped Overprotected or Closed Market

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With the exception of mobile voice, both countries
have opened all sectors of the market to unlimited competition. Saudi Arabia is set to follow down the path taken by Israel , Bahrain and
Jordan soon when it announced plans to liberalise fixed-voice markets two
years earlier than anticipated.

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Saudi Arabia has also made significant progress in the mobile market with
a second GSM licence awarded with plans to award a third licence in late-2006.

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The result of this is evident
today as there are 11 countries with two or more mobile operators .

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Other countries in the region include Afghanistan , Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates .

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Apart from regulatory developments, the upcoming increase in wholesale
international bandwidth will have a major impact on affordability of services
in the region. SEA -ME-WE 4 and the FLAG Falcon cable, both set to go live in
late-2005, have landing stations in a number of Middle East countries.

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